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Re: Smart Battery Monitoring... Again...

I'm thinking of the NP-F330, NP-F550, NP-F750, NP-F960 Lithim-ion series, but I'm sure they would all use a similar protocol. If nobody on the list has done it already, I should probably buy a Sony charger and put the mysterious third contact on a scope to see just how "serial" it is.

----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Barr <>
Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 7:32 am
Subject: Re: Smart Battery Monitoring... Again...

> Nicolas Bingham wrote:
> > I realise the discussion of smart battery monitoring systems 
> > has been raised countless times on wear-hard. As I understand
> > it, several wear-harders are using voltage monitoring systems
> > to prompt them for a shut down or battery hot swap, but nobody
> > has yet worked out the info component of infolithium batteries.
> 
> Are you talking about these?
> http://www.cybershotcentral.com/access.asp?which=batteries
> 
> Could you get the Power Supply/Quick Charger and rig
> a way to read the data while letting it pass through to the
> charger?  That way you could see what the data is and what
> the changer makes of it.
> 
> Steve
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